Travel Light Travel Dark

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John Agard

Verlag:

Bloodaxe Books

Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: QZEP5QR

EAN: 9781852249915

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Nicht auf Lager

Zustellung: Di, 28.07.2026

Versand: Kostenlos

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Beschreibung

John Agard has been broadening the canvas of British poetry for the past 40 years with his mischievous, satirical fables which overturn all our expectations. In this new symphonic collection, Travel Light Travel Dark, Agard casts his unique spin on the intermingling strands of British history, and leads us into metaphysical and political waters. Cross-cultural connections are played out in a variety of voices and cadences. Prospero and Caliban have a cricket match encounter, recounted in calypso-inspired rhythms, and in the long poem, Water Music of a Different Kind, the incantatory orchestration of the Atlantic's middle passage becomes a moving counterpoint to Handel's Water Music. Travel Light Travel Dark brings a mythic dimension to the contemporary and opens with a meditation on the enigma of colour. Water often appears as a metaphoric riff within the fabric of the collection, as sugar cane tells its own story in 'Sugar Cane's Saga' and water speaks for itself in a witty debate with wine, inspired by the satirical tradition of the goliards, wandering clerics of the Middle Ages.

Spezifikationen

Sprache

Englisch

Autor

John Agard

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Format

Buch (Softcover)

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